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Menu Planning #146

 

Our meals need to be nutritious, clean, flexible, quick and cost effective.

Between our work schedules and after school activities, we need to carefully

plan our meals so that we do not end up ordering out.  We try hard to keep our

total food and household products to under $100.00 per week. 


Goal: $400.00 + $33.36 = $433.36

What did we spend? 


Week 1- $134.50

Peach Truck- $22.00

Aldi: $53.44

CVS: $0.80

Kroger: 54.87

Miejers: 3.39

Rebates: $15.89

IBOTTA: $13.89

SavingStar: $2.00
 Kroger Cash: $10.00


Week 2- $102.20

Aldi: $50.41

Kroger: $46.44

$16.01

$27.28

CVS: $3.82

Walgreens: $ 4.68

Rebates: 

Register Rewards- $6.00


Week 3- $69.30

Meijer: $19.77

Kroger: $43.08

CVS: $6.45

Rebate: 

CVS ECB: $32.00 (Used $19 ECB) 


Week 4- 

Rebate: 


Total: $306.00

Rebate Total: $15.89

Final Total: $290.11


NOTE: Rebate total DOESN’T include Kroger Cash or Refunds because they

will come off of the Kroger Bill automatically the following week.   In addition, I

don’t count CVS as part of the grocery bill because I normally use gift cards and

ECB to get my items for free, so in the end the money is usually to my benefit.   


Grocery Shopping Tips:  With school starting, I look for ways to cut down on

my meal prep time during the week.    One way to stay away from the take out

line is to cook a large meal and have it two days in a row.   If you family doesn’t

like that much repetitiveness, then meal makeover.   That is right, cook up

chicken,beef, etc. for two meals, but serve them in different dishes.   For

example, roast chicken and be remade into pulled chicken sandwiches, soup,

chicken salad, or chicken casserole.  

 

Let’s take a look at what we ate this week. 


Breakfast Options: 

https://sweetlifeonabudget.blogspot.com/2018/11/making-yogurt-101.html

Yogurt

Hard Boiled Eggs

Cereal

Blueberry Oatmeal Bake


Monday

BBQ Chicken

Baked Potatoes

Corn


Tuesday

Tacos

Salad


Wednesday

Left Overs


Thursday

Hamburgers

Roasted Potatoes

Corn


Friday

https://sweetlifeonabudget.blogspot.com/2019/05/pizza-277-per-pie.html


Pizza

Salad


Saturday


Baked Eggplant

Pasta

Salad

Bread


Sunday

*Mississippi Beef

Potato Salad

Cole Slaw 


This week’s rough plan: 


M- Leftover Beef

T-  Enchiladas 

W- Jambalaya  

Th- Grilled Chicken Salad

F- Stromboli 

Sat- Grilled Chicken 

Sun-  Pasta


* Indicate that the recipe is a new one for our family.   


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